This is a windows batch/visual basic script based on winddcutil that executes a pixel cleaning routine for the ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM. It has been tested on a couple units running firmware MCM103, beta MCM104, and MCM 105. It should also work on previous versions but it's unconfirmed.
Download the zip archive from Releases and unzip its two contained files to the same directory.
Having your windows monitor drivers installed will help with ID'ing
Run PixelClean.cmd/PixelCleanv2.vbs, it will:
- Read your current windows power plan monitor timeout.
- Detect your windows display number for the PG32UCDM.
- Get your current settings stored in the same address used for pixel cleaning.
- Set your windows power plan monitor timeout to 10 minutes
- Write the corrected value to that same address. <- This will black the screen out and the logo should blink several times to indicate the cleaning has started and will take around 6 minutes.
- Once it's done, if it took less than 6 minutes, it'll wait for that period to elapse, restore your previous windows monitor timeout and exit.
If windows didn't detect user input (random keypress or moving the mouse) while the cleaning was under way and your previous timeout has elapsed, that'll probably result in the monitor entering sleep.
Windows implementation of the ddcutil Linux program for querying and changing monitor settings, such as brightness and color levels. Uses the VESA Monitor Control Command Set (MCCS) over the Display Data Channel Command Interface Standard (DDC-CI).
- Good news,
winddcutilhas been ported to Python! We use the API provided by the monitorcontrol Python package. - See the CHANGELOG for additional details.
The dist\winddcutil.exe is a standalone executable that can be run without installing a Python interpreter.
usage: winddcutil [-h] {detect,capabilities,setvcp,getvcp} ...
Windows implementation of the ddcutil Linux program for querying and changing monitor settings
positional arguments:
{detect,capabilities,setvcp,getvcp}
detect Detect monitors
capabilities Query monitor capabilities
setvcp Set VCP feature value
getvcp Get VCP feature value
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
This Python package is built with Python 3.11.5. Get Python here.
Initialize Python virtual environment
py -3 -m venv --upgrade-deps .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements.txt
Build standalone distributable [dist\winddcutil.exe]
pyinstaller cli.py --name winddcutil --onefile
Run tests
pytest test
Run pre-commit checks on all files
pre-commit run --all
Bug fixes and enhancement contributions via PRs are welcome!
If you find a bug or have a feature request, please file an issue using the issue tracker on GitHub.